It all started with one question on a survey that Royette Tavernier would later analyze for her master’s thesis: “Have you ever experienced a major turning point in your life that changed how you thought about something or how you behaved?”

Michelle Jetha and Sid Segalowitz gave a keynote talk to the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services 2011 SPARKS Research Conference entitled “Brain Developmental from Pre-Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Implications for Policy and Service Delivery” on Nov. 23. The conference was webcast to Ministry personnel across the province.

Professor Sid Segalowitz gave a colloquium talk to the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University on Nov. 17 on his research, entitled “Self-regulation and the medial prefrontal cortex: on the automaticity of controlled processing.”

Violent video games have long taken the blame for the aggressive actions of gamers. But a new study by graduate student Paul Adachi shows that it’s the intense competition in games, not the violence, that makes people’s pulses quicken.